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Marlène
LARUELLE

Former Associate Research Fellow, Russia/Eurasia Center, Ifri

Research Areas:

  • Russian ideological production and soft power
  • Illiberal movements
  • Russian Arctic policy

Marlène Laruelle is a former Associate Research Fellow at Ifri's Russia/Eurasia Center. She is also a Researcher, Professor, and the Director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University (Washington DC), and co-Director of PONARS-Eurasia. She works on Russian ideological production and Russia's soft power abroad, as well as on the rise of illiberal movements in Europe, Eurasia and the United States. She also works on Russian Arctic policy. 

Her latest publications include Is Russia Fascist (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021), La Russie entre peurs et défis (Armand Colin, 2016, with Jean Radvanyi), released in a revised and updated English version Understanding Russia. The Challenges of Transformation (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), and Russian Nationalism. Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields (Routledge, 2018).

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Russia’s Ideological Construction in the Context of the War in Ukraine

22 March 2024

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Russian government has been proactive in the ideological realm to ensure the sustainability of the war for Russian society. 

Marlène LARUELLE
Papers

Russia at War and the Islamic World

30 January 2023

While Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a decoupling with the West on a scale not seen since the worst years of the Cold War, Russia has not been isolated from the non-Western world and has even reinvested its diplomatic energy toward the Global South.

Marlène LARUELLE
Papers

Russia’s Islam: Balancing Securitization and Integration

16 December 2021

Russia’s Islam has been much more than the two Chechen wars, and regular terrorist actions that have shaken the Russian territory. Islam constitutes an integral part of Russia’s history and culture, and the Putin regime regularly celebrates Islam’s contribution to the country and its great power reassertion.

Marlène LARUELLE
Papers

Russia’s Niche Soft Power: Sources, Targets and Channels of Influence

08 April 2021

This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms:

Marlène LARUELLE
External Books

Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West

15 March 2021

The charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order.

Marlène LARUELLE
Papers

Russia’s Arctic Policy: A Power Strategy and Its Limits

02 March 2020

Despite the deterioration of its relations with the West and economic stagnation limiting its room for maneuver, Russia continues to have an ambitious policy for the Arctic region.

Marlène LARUELLE

Envisioning Opportunities for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in and with Central Asia

26 April 2019

Central Asia is conventionally seen as a conflicting space for great powers.

Marlène LARUELLE Andrey KORTUNOV
Papers

Russia’s Militia Groups and their Use at Home and Abroad

04 April 2019

What makes the militia milieu so unique and important for understanding today’s Russia is that it finds itself at the intersection of state institutions, patronage mechanisms, criminal structures, and grassroots illiberal activism.

Marlène LARUELLE

Imagined Geographies of Central and Eastern Europe: The Concept of Intermarium

20 March 2019

Like the proverbial cat, some concepts have several lives. Or, like the mythological phoenix, they can be reborn from the ashes. This is certainly the case of the Intermarium, a geopolitical concept that envisaged an alliance of countries reaching from the Baltic Sea over the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea that would serve as a third power bloc between Germany and Russia.

Marlène LARUELLE Ellen RIVERA

Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z

20 March 2019

Of Russia’s 146 million citizens (if we include those in Crimea), 63 million—or 43 percent—are under 34 years of age. Of these, 30 million belong to Generation Y (millennials in their 20s and early 30s), 15 million belong to Gen Z (teenagers), and a further 18 million are part of the youngest generation (less than 10 years of age).

Marlène LARUELLE
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